02 May 2015

Sydney Writers' Festival - 23 May 2015 - Wollongong

Merrigong Theatre Company presents

Sydney Writers' Festival – Live & Local

In association with the South Coast Writers Centre
Watch interactive live-streamed sessions from the Sydney Writers’ Festival with a live South Coast Writers Centre panel discussion and readings from local writers.
23 May – 23 May
TO SEE THE FULL PROGRAM OF EVENTS, CLICK HERE

In 2015, Sydney Writers' Festival is expanding its horizons withLive & Local – a new digital live-streaming initiative taking Festival sessions across NSW with selected events screened in real-time. Events are interactive, with the opportunity for audiences to ask questions of the guest authors in Sydney.

Hosted by Chloe Higgins, from the South Coast Writers Centre and Festival Coordinator for the Wollongong Writers Festival, festival goers can take part in live-streamed sessions featuring high-profile speakers, covering a broad range of interesting topics. Plus, come along to a live panel discussion and hear local writers reading excerpts from their works – all at the Wollongong Town Hall.

Featuring
• Live Panel Discussion: Brought to you by the South Coast Writers Centre, featuring an exciting line-up of local writers and experts.
• Book Lounge: In-between sessions you can browse the book stalls, listen to live readings, chat to published authors, have your book signed and more.
• Food & Drinks: Selected food and drink will be available onsite to enjoy between sessions or you can wander round the corner to The Social @ IPAC for lunch, dinner or just a coffee. 

Tickets
One session (morning, afternoon and/or evening): To purchase a ticket to a single session, click the BUY TICKETS button at the bottom or right of page. Session tickets allow entry to the live panel discussion presented by the South Coast Writers Centre, My Region: The Metropolis.

Full day package: To purchase an all-day, all-sessions pass, please click here.

MORNING SESSION
A Radical Rethink, 10am – 11amPanel | Genres: Nonfiction, Science & Environment
Speakers: Norman Doidge, Karen Hitchcock and Ranjana Srivastava

Imagined Futures, 11.30am – 12.30pmPanel | Genres: Fiction, Science & Environment
Speakers: Ashley Hay, Emily St John Mandel, Jonathan Lethem, James Bradley and David Mitchell

AFTERNOON SESSION
Ben Okri: The Age of Magic, 1.30pm – 2.30pmConversation | Genres: Fiction, Spirituality/Religion
Speakers: Ben Okri and Michael Cathcart

Give Me Back My Pre-Internet Brain, 3pm – 4pmPanel | Genres: Fiction, Genres: Nonfiction, Culture & Heritage, New MediaSpeakers: Adam Spencer, Douglas Coupland, Richard Flanagan and Sally Andrews

EVENING SESSION
Mistakes We’ve Made and Other Lessons in Feminism, 6pm – 7pmPanel | Genres: Nonfiction, Current Affairs, Politics
Speakers: Tracey Spicer, Annabel Crabb, Amy Bloom, Anna Bligh and Aya Utami

5 x 15: Adam Liaw, Richard Tognetti and More, 7pm – 9pm
Panel | Genres: Fiction, Genres: Nonfiction, Culture & Heritage, New Media
Speakers: Diana Jenkins, Richard Tognetti AO, Michael Connelly, Starlee Kine, Omar Musa and Adam Liaw

LIVE PANEL presented by the South Coast Writers Centre
My Region: The Metropolis, 4.30pm - 5.30pm
Panel | Genres: Culture and HeritageChair: Friederike Krishnabhakdi-Vasilakis, Director of the South Coast Writers Centre
Speakers: Merlinda Bobis, Bruce Pascoe, John Muk Muk Burke, Jeff Apter

WRITERS' NICHE – live readings, 11am – 3pm
Immerse yourself in new literature by hearing published authors read excerpts from their latest work.
Writers: Merlinda Bobis, Bruce Pascoe, Chrissie Paice, Jeff Apter

Buy TicketsSabo
VENUE INFORMATION
Venue 
Wollongong Town Hall, Main Auditorium
Map

DETAILS
Pricing
ONE SESSION (MORNING, AFTERNOON AND/OR EVENING) – Adult: $20, Conc: $15. FULL DAY PACKAGE – Adult: $50, Conc: $40 (A $6.75 transaction fee applies to phone and internet bookings)
Performance Times 
General Public:
Sat 23 May
Running Time
All day.
Tickets On Sale
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30 April 2015

On line publication - opinion from NSW Writer's Centre


 "Unfortunately, the answer is it's up to individual competitions to define
what they see as "published". Many competitions do provide
guidelines, and just as many do not! But the Macquarie Dictionary
defines the word publish as "to issue to the public the works of (an
author)". I do believe I have heard of competitions defining
publication as the work being made available in any form, paid or
unpaid. So I would say, unless the author knows the specific
competition they want to enter and has confirmed how they define
"published", it would be better not to put the work online."

It's a good question but not one I would hesitate about. I see the
work as published if it appears online.

 Kind regards
 
 Kirsten

Kirsten Krauth
Editor - Newswrite magazine
NSW Writers' Centre
PO Box 1056
Rozelle NSW 2039
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29 April 2015

Record of meeting 29 April 2015


Present

Wendy, David C, Elizabeth, David R, Helene, Leonie, Pauline, Geoff, Lynn, Cath, Diane

 
For sale

Mercedes Campervan and HP computer with warranty – See Gumtree or contact Diane for details





Short readings

We listened to a reading from Geoff on our alliance with Japan in WW 1. Geoff also read his story - Compacts - based on his observations of Anzac Day 2015
Leonie read a moving paragraph from “As it is in heaven” by Nial Williams, .

 
Words of the day

Snood = woman’s hair net

Relish = enjoy, like very much

Chagrin = annoyance, disappointment

Alumni = graduate from an educational institution

Profligate = depraved person

Importune = press, persist, insist

Ironical = use or prone to slightly sarcastic speech

Ephemeral = short-lived, transient, passing

Pessimistic = negative, gloomy

Bereft = deprived

Panoply = splendid array, complete suit of armour

 
Writing from words of the day

A great array of stories and poems - Coronation street, Ring the welder, Ill gotten gains, Looking her best, The boffins breeding program, The quest for a medal, The science class, Hippy behaviour, Beauty and gloom
and In the bath. 













Reading of homework

An eclectic mix of embarrassing homework - My head in the fog, A lost memory, My early cooking skills, M Barass not fit to run a circus, No other word, Life in a Nissan hut and Cutting the cake.

 








Exercise 1 – Physical activity

We took 15 minutes to describe in 100- 150 words a simple physical activity complete in itself.

Our brilliant descriptions included - A power failure and a dripping tap, The old dog snuffling, The patter of tiny feet and a smile, Rain drops falling from a leaf, Natalie cleaning her teeth, That smelly old dog, Cutting the wood, Searching for a memory and Wrestling and building with foam blocks.

Exercise 2 - Addictions

We created stories about addictions. Too much love, Exercise, Trivia, Coffee, The call of the sea, Caffeine and my I pad.

 
Homework

Write the story of a photograph, picture, press clipping or interesting object. Bring in the object to show after reading your homework.

 

 

 

 
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